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Director: Massimiliano Camaiti

2025, (Italy), 1hr 23 mins

Language: Italian with English subtitles

Presented by: Cinestudio with support from the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture and The Italian Resource Center at Central Connecticut State University.

 

A fascinating, patient observation of papal arcana, Massimiliano Camaiti’s hypnotic and sensitive documentary captures the process by which, each year at the Monastery of Saint Cecilia in Rome, two newborn lambs are blessed and afforded treatment befitting His Holiness himself, cared for closely by a cloistered nun who prepares their wool for its destiny as part of a sacred vestment to be worn by the Pope on June 29, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. A Venice Film Festival selection in the College Cinema section, Agnus Dei is an indelible, transfixing glimpse at movingly mystical procedures carried out in a sacred, somewhat obscure place while the winds of change blow outside its walls.